10 Worst Things Video Games Made You Pay For

Again, free-to-play mobile titles are hardly strangers to the microtransaction concept, but this particular transaction certainly had nothing micro about it.

Mario Kart Tour is an admirable effort to bring Mario Kart to the mobile market, but its controls take some time to get to grips with and it clearly revels in its free-to-play status. The game has seen a huge number of content drops since its initial launch in 2019, with a number of time-limited tour events offering special characters, such as Mario (Santa) for the 2021 Holiday tour.

A familiar gacha system is firmly in place, but premium-priced content packs are also available to help your luck along and get your hands on the more popular characters. Infamously, the Diddy Kong Pack arrived in October of 2019, offering the iconic little monkey, a Quick Ticket and a windfall of Rubies.

The egregious thing about this? Per Eurogamer, it was priced at £38.99.

This, as many pointed out on the pack’s release, is more than a copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Nintendo Switch would set fans back, a move there’s simply no justification for.